Sustainable energy vs. global warming

The world has been adversely affected by pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Numerous deaths have occurred due to respiratory illnesses caused by breathing polluted air. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of overall damage to the world. The earth is on a collision course for cataclysmic climate change. Fortunately, there has been a dramatic rise in renewable energy supplies in many countries, and a shift from coal to natural gas in others. Greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise at an increasing rate in the past several years. Individual nations need to make major changes in their energy policies soon if we are to reach clean air goals.  Geoengineering will probably also be required to solve the planet’s climate change and pollution problem.

Burning fossil fuels is the entire problem

Climate change is an energy problem. Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity or heat is responsible for about half of global warming pollution.  Reducing global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius will require changing how the world uses energy to power its cities and factories, heats and cools buildings, and transports people and goods in airplanes, trains, cars, ships, and trucks. Changes are required in technology, and also in people's choices for power. "We can reduce through substantial behavioral change and lifestyle change the demand for energy and the consumption of energy," noted Ramon Pichs-Madruga, an economist at Cuba's Center for the Investigation of the Global Economy and co-chair of the Working Group III report. That change "allows for greater flexibility when we come to select technology options. If we leave it all up to technology the costs and risks will be much greater." Pollution has already doubled just since 1970 and the rates of pollution have been increasing by approximately one billion metric tons per year in recent years, a pace that must be brought to an abrupt stop. To hold global warming in check requires reducing current emission levels by as much as 70 percent by 2050, compared with 2010 levels, and nearly eliminating such pollution by 2100. 

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